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[155] "La parleure est plus delitable et plus commune à toutes gens."

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

It was in that year, too, that one Martino da Canale, a clerk in the customs house, began to busy himself (like Chaucer after him) less with his accounts than with writing in the delectable French language ( 'por ce que lengue franceise cort parmi le monde, et est la plus delitable a lire et a oir que nule autre') a chronicle of Venice.

Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914

The Italian Brunetto Latini, the master of Dante, wrote his Treasure in French because, he says, ‘la parleure en est plus delitable et plus commune a toutes gens.

The Study of Poetry 1909

At the third time he found a fair fountain and a much delitable place, and began sore to desire him to eat with him, and at the last he consented and ate.

The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

_la parleure plus delitable, il plus commune à toutes gens_ ( "the most delightful of languages and the most common to all peoples").

The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893